Tag Archives: Genocide

Lety Portraits

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The stories and faces of Roma and Sinti survivors of the Holocaust will be presented in Prague at the Clam-Gallas Palace. The exhibition wants to avoid the depersonalized language of numbers and photographs of impoverished people taken by the Nazis. Instead, it presents the concrete human destinies of six prisoners from the Lety u Písek concentration camp, for example through authentic family photos and audio recordings of memories. For the first time, the original diary of Josef Serink, who escaped from the camp and became a partisan, and other personal items associated with the survivors will be exhibited. The exhibition, which was presented to journalists on Monday by representatives of the Museum of Roma Culture, will be open until June 30.

French Chronicle …

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Several news about the 8th of April in the French press. One is interesting. A French book about Johann Trollmann, the Sinto boxer who won the German heavyweight title in 1933 but was then stripped of the title. Here, no mention about Sinti …

The rest of the news are the usual ones: A camp near Strasbourg will be closed and a fire in a camp in Toulouse.

Conference

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On April 10th, a conference will be held in the European Parliament commemorating the 80 years of the Holocaust of the Roma.

Uzhhorod: Online Museum on Genocide

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On Wednesday, April 3, Uzhgorod hosted the presentation of the online museum “Poraimos na Transcarpathia”, which presents exhibits of one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Roma – the genocide during the Second World War. The creators of the museum are convinced that future generations should remember the tragic pages of history so that such manifestations of inhumane treatment never happen again.

Unfortunately, they used the P-term …

Uzhhorod: New Book on the Genocide

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The book “Genocide of the Transcarpathian Roma: Trying to Understand” was presented at the Uzhhorod Press Club. This book is a teaching and methodical guide to help teachers in teaching the history of Roma in schools, – the author of the book, explained Romologist Evgenia Navrotska.

Liberec Memorial

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Another article about the newly erected monument for the Roma victims of the Genocide in Liberec, Czechia. The monument especially commemorates the children who were killed during the war.

The entire Roma population of the region was wiped out during the war.

Prague and Roma History

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Jana Kokyová, chairwoman of the Roma Holocaust Compensation Committee, recalled the tragic fate of the Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust at a memorial meeting in Prague-Ruzyn on the 11th of March. In her speech, she emphasized that almost 90% of the Czech Roma and Sinti were exterminated and that this chapter of history is still neglected. She pointed to personal family experiences with Nazism and expressed concern that history might repeat itself. She criticized the insufficient representation of Roma history in school curricula and called for the support of educational programs that would help build a fairer and more tolerant society. At the same time, she drew attention to the current increase in extremism and the need for financial support for the Roma and Sinti Centre to continue its important work.

Encyclopaedia of the Genocide of the Roma

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An article in the Slovak press about the release of the Encyclopaedia.

During the inauguration, the head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, Romani Rose, announced this at the presentation of the encyclopedia in Berlin’s documentation center for Nazi crimes Topography of Terror.

He also pointed out that the genocide of the Roma was neglected by politicians and scientists for a long time. The professional mapping of Nazi atrocities against the Roma has now been changed by the work of Karola Fings from the University of Heidelberg, who leads the internet encyclopaedia project.

Auschwitz Seminar

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A program of free seminars for young people devoted to the fate of the Roma and Sinti in the German Auschwitz camp was prepared by the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. The institution announced that they would last from April to December.

Paweł Sawicki from the press office of the Auschwitz Museum, of which the Education Centre is a part, announced on Tuesday that the participants will visit the former camp with a guide during their stay and will also take part in the “Extermination of Sinti and Roma” workshop, which will take place in the former camp block 13. “Semminars will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from April to December, excluding holidays and holidays. The program can be run in Polish, English and German. The museum does not cover travel costs,” Sawicki said.

Auschwitz: Commemoration

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The 81st anniversary of the first transport to the Roma camp in Auschwitz was commemorated.

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The Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová was in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia to commemorate the victims of the mass murder of Roma in the Dubnica detention camp in 1945.

May they rest in peace, and congratulation to the president for this participation.

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